Imagining New York City : literature, urbanism, and the visual arts, 1890-1940
Lindner, Christoph, 1971-2015
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Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, 'Imagining New York City' considers how and why certain city spaces - the skyline, the sidewalk, the slum, and the subway - have come to emblematize key aspects of the modern urban condition.
Main title:
Imagining New York City : literature, urbanism, and the visual arts, 1890-1940 / Christoph Lindner.
Author:
Lindner, Christoph, 1971-, author
Imprint:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Collation:
240 pages : illustrations (black and white)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780195375152 (pbk)
Dewey class:
303.4'097471603.4
Language:
English
Subject:
City and town life -- New York (N.Y.) (State) -- New York -- HistorySpace (Architecture) -- Social aspects -- New York (N.Y.) (State) -- New York -- HistoryPublic spaces -- Social aspects -- New York (N.Y.) (State) -- New York -- HistoryBuildings -- Social aspects -- New York (N.Y.) (State) -- New York -- HistorySidewalks -- Social aspects -- New York (N.Y.) (State) -- New York -- HistorySocial change -- New York (N.Y.) (State) -- New York -- HistorySocietyNew York (N.Y.) -- Social conditionsNew York (N.Y.) -- In motion picturesNew York (N.Y.) -- In literatureNew York (N.Y.) -- In art
BRN:
1779105
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